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I don't think that should happen - normal staircases should always allow you to climb back up, in principle. Are you sure it was a normal staircase and not an "escape hatch," because those are one-way. It seems pretty unreasonable for it to land you in a 1x1 room with nothing in it, though...

In terms of something a bit tougher but still caster-capable... They're tough for the first couple of floors, but Ogre (some spellcaster class here: I prefer Wizard) gets a ton of HP and semi-good spellcasting aptitudes (well, not "good," exactly, but by pumping Spellcasting and adding to ...

What were you doing to spend so much piety? Kiku gains piety on killing basically anything but undead (while giving you the tools to dominate any fight against Undead)... Unless you are using Corpse Delivery multiple times per floor, you should be fine. Were you super desperate to get to max piety v...

Awesome. That sort of seems like a mark in favor of multiplicative brands in extended, at least for bosses and difficult spots (where one would typically use Might, etc).

It may or may not be worth noting that, when I posted the original question, Holy was not an option for the character I had in mind as it was a Demonspawn... Who did go on to win with an Electric branded weapon. I ended up using a lot of charms and some consumables to take down those bosses (hell lo...

The Epicenter way holds more problems (for me), namely that you are "at" all these places but not able to act from them. Of course, the LoS Scummyness of the Hyperstepper approach could be short-circuited by simply giving all the LoS from the start, similar to the OP. At which point Hypers...

If it's got the Bone Rune, shouldn't it replace Tartarus?

Better bone up on the existent runes!

They do not. Stealth check happens at the beginning of a monster's turn, before it takes any action. According to LearnDB and the Wiki, this is not the case and stealth is rolled each time the player acts. Otherwise, Nagas would effectively be bad at Stealth and moving fast would make you an amazin...

Well, the point is how to represent being in all these places at once... As I mentioned, using it for information gathering is risky because you could alert more monsters who shout, roar, etc and wake up the rest of the otherwise dormant foes. If we don't want players getting extra actions out of th...

In regards to worries about expanding one's LoS getting the PC killed - you don't have to cast the spell in every situation, right? Firestorm is exceptionally loud but still certainly usable (but yes, it does kill enemies for you). Anyway, at a minimum, Hyperphase would be very useful for, say, a fi...

Go Kiku! Early focus on combat skills (get that min delay) and evocations (for emergencies, or really just anything a little threatening) with a bit of Throwing (though I never found much in the way of great needles), adding Necromancy as needed to get important spells online. Corpse Rot is devastat...

Well, that's super, because Sojobo just dropped me a Triple Sword of Electrocution. :p Also, Sojobo is a crazy badass. I had to teleport to get away from him more than once (Mara was also on Valuts:2 - you don't want to fight those two at the same time!), since I was having a hard time landing hits....

Ahh - yes, that's what the wiki seemed to indicate, but I know that the wiki isn't always correct on these matters. I still think it would help to differentiate Vorpal as a brand if it were sort of an "AC Buster" - there are already some brands that sort of function that way (Pain, Electri...

Assuming that you find no incredible randarts and are "stuck" with just a +9 weapon (Demon Whip, Triple Sword, GSC, whatever)... It seems to me that Vorpal would be the brand of choice, but that does not seem to be the conventional wisdom on the matter. My reasons for feeling this way are ...

Thanks!

Yes, I wasn't thinking that it would cycle back to SB from the crosstrain, but hoping that it would work as you describe. Mostly, I was thinking "It would suck if I retroactively lost the Crosstrain bonus." Good to know that it works that way!

So... As I understand it, crosstraining weapon skills gives 40% "virtual" experience to the secondary weapon skill, yes? Say that I started a character using Short Blades and later move to Long Blades. The question is, as I gain skill in long blades, does the "virtual" experience...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but for some reason, Beogh is not offended by animating Orc corpses. Even worse, since chunks don't "remember" where they are from anymore, you can Animate Skeleton a fellow Orc and proceed to eat the resulting chunks with no consequences... I fe...

Haven't been playing much Crawl the last couple of months, but had a lot of fun with this character and may be getting back into the game again... Gargoyles seemed a little OP to me when I first read about all their nice intrinsics, though of course HP is the big issue for them. Nice Stealth aptitud...

In regards to Lom Lobon, does Tornado provide any sort of protection against missile attacks? It would make sense if it did, but that doesn't always mean much... I have only had like one character to get Tornado cast and it was several versions ago. :p

Congratulations!

I'm a bit curious - what was giving you a hard time in Tomb? I haven't gone into it with Necromutation this version, but in .15 I stayed in Lichform the whole time and just had so much MR and HP by that point that Dispel Undead wasn't really an issue.

Wow - that's a huge miss rate, much higher than I would have thought. Interesting.

Bolt Spells (Fire or Cold); 3 or 4 should kill the Emperor. If his buddy shows up mid-fight, you can angle the bolt to hit 2 with little fuss. Confusion is a great spell for high-spellpower builds, too. Freezing Cloud and Confusion (or Enslavement) kills basically anything in Spider and is very MP ...

Bolt Spells (Fire or Cold); 3 or 4 should kill the Emperor. If his buddy shows up mid-fight, you can angle the bolt to hit 2 with little fuss. Confusion is a great spell for high-spellpower builds, too. Freezing Cloud and Confusion (or Enslavement) kills basically anything in Spider and is very MP e...

I think that the "more mobs show up and you're low on MP" scenario is not so much a problem as some might think - in most cases, some of your spells are disables/escapes, and failing that, the enemy is at the edge of your LoS, so you have time to read a scroll to get out if all else fails...

Oh... Of course that makes sense. :p

Melee overpowered? I have a much easier time with casters, and I don't play a lot of hunters... It seems like a "pure" melee guy just has very few options if they meet something potentially scary, and since Crawl combat is so swingy (the other day, I had a melee guy, in plate, take a Spiny...

Yea, I know, right? Anyway, not that it was that big a deal. Character was fine through Spider, and died because I *still* underestimate just how much damage a Titanic Slime Creature deals (I really need to play slower around slime creatures :p) - this was is profoundly stupid of me, considering I h...

This makes no sense.

Does Helix do anything at all to mummies? If not, what do they have to fear from using the deck (if anything)?

Ah - that's what I thought, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks.

So,about the gods that allow branding a weapon (Holy, Distort, or Pain) at max piety level...

Which, if any, of these can be placed on a ranged weapon? I seem to think I read somewhere that Holy could (in some version or other), but can the others?

Ah - thought it was probably a joke, but you know how it is - text does not convey tone, etc.

I will report it to bug tracker, because Manticores seem like they should be scarier than they are... Also because it's a bug.

What would you call it if not a bug? Probably unintended, quite unintuitive feature? I don't understand. I'll rename the thread if you like (and tell me how).

Edit: I figured it out.

Traveling up and down stairs with the Barb status on does not seem to deal damage to the PC. Is this intentional?

In answer to Nilsbloodaxe, yes, I was training all of those. UC was around 11, Dodging and Fighting a little less than that on the character in question. Yes, I had some wands but nothing that could take out a Thorn Hunter quickly, and their accuracy seems very high. Keep in mind Dithmenos=no fire. ...

Assuming I survive character level 1, I generally roll through all of lair and orc with no problems, do D down to 15 and then I just die (three times, naturally) in whatever branch I try. Specifically, I've been playing some Felid Enchanters (generally of Dith, which seems very powerful up to this p...

Ahh... Just saw that thread - Tough break. I never wear anything with Guardian Spirit if I intend to cast pretty much any offensive spells. The prospect of having your mp punched off is just too scary for me. In fact, I think Antaeus spawned wearing the Moon Troll leather (or he just put it on befor...

Also, if you are taking on Hell, you probably don't need any consumables to deal with Zot:5... Probably. Well, cure mutation potions, of course.

Rough death - better luck next time! And... Yea, don't underestimate Dispater.

As of .16, Formicids could have Treasure Troves ask them for a stack of Potions of Haste (mine asked for around 8, I think) for entry. This may have been fixed in .161 but I wanted to put it out there (didn't see it in changelog). Potions of Haste are literally useless to Formicids (wands you can at...

Yea, with the huge INT demigods are now capable of, I am thinking that Demigod Enchanters must be pretty great. It was a split decision for me starting as Wizard or Enchanter, and while I was using short blades in the early game, I never really got into stabbing (though I was tempted). I did get tho...

Yea, I probably should have put more into dodging towards the end - I only had about 13 in armor but I found a manual for that so I figured go for it. Since I hardly was in melee and had Deflect Missiles up basically all the time, I didn't feel like I needed too much dodging, but training it to 12 o...

I was very excited about the .16(1) changes to Demigods, but I got caught up playing Felids and Formicids for a while (for some reason). Those turned out exactly as you might expect. Anyway, here's the dump for this character who was allowed to wear things and teleport all for the low, low price of ...

It's not... What exactly?

So, I understand how allies take some of the incoming exp when an enemy they damaged dies. What about if you get an enslaved "ally" killed by another enemy? Furthermore, do confused enemies take exp from things they damage/kill in the same way that allies do? What about confused enemies th...

Is this bug only on the Webtiles or is it in the version of .16 I downloaded to play offline as well?

Edit: Oh, Ninja'd, sort of.

Penetrates Clouds of Flame with no problem? Is this correct? Well, it seems to be correct - is this right? As in, intended...

True enough, to equipping/unequipping Vampiric can be a pain, and I figured blow my enchant weapon scrolls on it, since Vampiric will be amazing for quite some time.

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